I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

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Singer, actress and Broadway phenomenon, Cynthia Arevo. Cynthia moved audiences to tears

with her star making performance in the revival of the color purple on Broadway. As Seely,

she brought down the house night after night with her heart-stopping performance of,

I'm Here. And she's here. Listen, I'm not even going to try even

to hum in your presence, okay? I won't even try to hum. Hello. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.

When I ever I would leave a sing color purple I saw it so many times, the songs would sort

of be inside my spirit and I couldn't let go and waking up in the middle of the night

to go pee, still be singing. Did that happen to you? Yeah, yeah. I felt like in the most

wonderful way I was stuck in a loop of the songs. I used to get asked what my favorite

song of the show was. Yes. And it would change. All the time. Yeah, it would change all

the time. Maybe for a week it would be I'm here and then next week it would be Dear God

Sophia and then next week it would be at the color purple and then it would be someone

else's song. You know, it would change but it was like a record that kept going. We first

bet actually when you were cast as Seely in the revival of the color purple on Broadway

and your performance was transcendent. Thank you. It changed or resonated deeply with everybody

who saw the performance. You know, I loved that moment when everybody would just like

it couldn't stay in their seats and they would just rise up and start applauding in the

middle of the song. You must have loved that too. I loved it. But never expected it. So

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